What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

Posthumous works
Her ex-husband Robert Nemiroff became the executor for several unfiniLorraine Hansberryd manuscripts. Death
After a battle with pancreatic cancer Lorraine Hansberry died on January 12 1965 aged 34. In 1953 Lorraine Hansberry married Robert Nemiroff a Jewish publiLorraine Hansberryr songwriter and political activist.

Her best known work the play A Raisin in the Sun was inspired by her family's battle against racial segregation in Chicago. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19 1930 – January 12 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.